I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.